The Sky’s Many Colors
Series: Kathmandu 2017
The concept that women’s confinement in the home is for their protection was irreconcilable to me. But in our differences we found learning opportunities instead of distance.
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Facing Down Intolerance: Sharing Madrasas in the USA
Series: Kathmandu 2017
I was shocked and repulsed that someone in my own family would say that, after I had shared how wonderful the Madrasa Discourses participants were.
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Identity and Truth as Tools for Peacebuilding
Series: Kathmandu 2017
As my peers in India and Pakistan are working towards updating their tradition, I will do the same in my faith community.
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The Tragedy of Otherness
Series: Kathmandu 2017
As one of the first Americans these madrasa students had met, I felt enormous pressure to be a positive but accurate representative for the impossible-to-represent demographic of “American.”
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Sharing Madrasa Discourses at the United Nations
Series: Kathmandu 2017
Before joining Notre Dame’s Madrasa Discourses project, Indian madrasa graduate Aadil Affan would have told you that accommodating or accepting…
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Madrasa Discourses in the Shade of the Himalayas
Series: Kathmandu 2017
Even in the narrow winding streets of Nepal, drenched daily with monsoon rains, there was no escape from the news media which equate the word “madrasa” with everything toxic in Islam.
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